Completed in October 1918 as French Jacques Cartier for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, Paris. 1930 renamed Winnipeg for the same owner. 1938 renamed Paimpol for one voyage to South America for Compagnie France-Navigation, Dunkirk.

In the evening on 26 May 1941, the Vichy French Winnipeg enroute from Casablanca to Guadeloupe with about 750 passengers was captured by HNMS Van Kinsbergen (U 93) (Cdr J.L.K. Hoeke, RNN) and taken the next day to Port of Spain, Trinidad. The ship was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Winnipeg II.

Notes on event

At 21.45 hours on 22 Oct 1942, U-443 fired a spread of two torpedoes at the convoy ON-139 southwest of Fastnet and heard two hits but no detonations after 1 minutes 14 seconds. These were probably duds. At 21.48 hours, the U-boat fired another spread of two torpedoes, which sank the Winnipeg II. Two minutes later the stern torpedo was fired, which damaged the Donax.